围棋 · The Game of Go
Learn Go by placing stones — not by reading rules.
Tiny puzzles, immediate feedback, and a calm wooden board. Capture your first stone in the next thirty seconds.
- 5 minutes: capture stones
- 15 minutes: finish a tiny game
- Day 1: play 9×9
One a day, every day
Today's puzzle.
A small, fresh problem every calendar day. Solve it to extend your streak. Miss a day and the streak resets — so check back tomorrow.
Same puzzle for everyone, anywhere in the world.
Daily puzzle
An eye is a hole inside your group
An 'eye' is an empty point fully surrounded by stones of one color — a tiny hole the opponent can never legally fill.
Start with the end in mind
What does winning look like?
Go is a quiet race for empty space. When neither player can gain more, the game ends and you count: each empty point you fully surrounded is a point. Most stones on the board never get captured — they just own land.
- •Stones draw the walls.
- •Empty points inside your wall are your territory.
- •More territory wins. Captures help, but territory decides.
Click Reveal territory on the board to see who won and why.
Choose your path
Every path starts with placing one stone.
I know nothing
Start at lesson one. We'll teach liberties, atari, and capture by doing.
Begin lesson 1I want to capture
Jump straight into Capture Go against a friendly bot — first capture wins.
Play Capture Go